The notion of a more conventional Pavement album is dispiriting for those who cherish their countrified strangeness and wonky charm. Terror Twilight was recorded, uniquely for Pavement, on a fancy 24-track desk, with a name producer (OK Computer's Nigel Godrich), a shift towards legitimacy that coincides with Stephen Malkmus's maturation as a songwriter. Mercifully, for all the melodic rock orthodoxy of Cream Of Gold, Spit On A Stranger and Major Leagues, he still hasn't learnt to sing (or rhyme), and the band's joy of random noise has not deserted them. Thus, while it's an over-pleasant Pavement album with worryingly un-Fall-like titles (no Date With IKEA or Zurich Is Stained here), it still doesn't really sound like anyone else. Least of all New Blur.